Jessica Cruz slept in a crowded Mexico City gym this week, flanked by exercise equipment, a baby carriage, a large pile of stuffed animals and a small bag of diapers for her baby boy. The workout room, laden with blue foam mats, was far from...

North Korea’s leader is believed to be 31 years old, which makes Kim Jong-un a millennial. Donald Trump is 71, meaning he was born two full years before Kim’s grandfather founded the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in...

Chelsea Manning is in the news again. The 29-year-old former military whistleblower is at the center of a dustup at Harvard University’s prestigious John F. Kennedy School of Government. The school invited her to speak to students and...

Ximena Cortez, a 22-year-old software test engineer, clutches two manila folders as she sits across from a lawyer. They contain her and her brother’s renewal applications for a federal program that grants two-year reprieves from deportation for...

Tanner Lee Swiger graduated from high school in Wayne County, West Virginia this spring. His father and grandfather both worked in West Virginia’s coal industry. But not Swiger, or any of his high school classmates. Nobody from his graduating...

After the 2016 presidential election, Xavier Maciel felt compelled to act. He created a unique spreadsheet of universities that identify as sanctuary campuses, including his own Pomona College in Claremont, California. The goal? Provide a...

When Barack Obama used his executive authority to create the DACA program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, back in 2012, the Rev. Gabriel Salguero decided to get behind the president’s effort. “I supported it from its inception because I...

More than 1,200 people have been killed by flooding and landslides in northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh as intense rainfall has slammed the region for weeks. Tens of thousands of homes, schools and hospitals have been destroyed by the monsoon...

Braunau am Inn would like to be an ordinary town, like its neighbors in this river valley on Austria’s border with Germany. But it’s not, thanks to an unwanted native son — Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born here in 1889 and was still in...

On Saturday, a white nationalist rally erupted into deadly violence as a car plowed into a crowd. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence, in effect equating neo-Nazis and white supremacists with...

Throughout much of history, witnessing a total solar eclipse would mean one thing above all else. And that is fear. For the ancient Greeks, an eclipse was a sign that the gods were angry. The Vikings saw eclipses as a potential apocalypse. And...

If there was any doubt that President Donald Trump was talking about nuclear weapons when he talked about “fire and fury” descending on North Korea, that doubt was dispelled Wednesday with a statement from the secretary of defense,...

Two videos emerged recently on Kenyan social media: One appeared to be from the BBC, the other from CNN. Both claimed that incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta was way ahead in the polls for the presidential election on Tuesday. But, in reality,...

News that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt of court spread quickly through Phoenix’s immigrant community on Monday. That evening, a dozen women — most of them of Mexican descent — stood in front of...

The rap on Washington and the Trump administration these days is that nothing is getting done. Well, tell that to anyone concerned about the climate crisis. Sure, most of President Donald Trump’s legislative initiatives have gone nowhere in...